Assessing Beverage Vending Machine Options on a College Campus

Reducing stress on a college campus.

A variety of forces, internal and external, often impact students who are experiencing life on a college campus; these forces can lead to feelings of increased pressure and stress. To combat the negative effects of stress, faculty and administrators at a mid-size, suburban university collaborated to help students decrease their stress and assist them in attaining and maintaining a healthy lifes...

Scheduling Classes on a College Campus

We consider the problem of scheduling a set of classes to classrooms with the objective of minimizing the number of classrooms used. The major constraint that we must obey is that no two classes can be assigned to the same classroom at the same time on the same day of the week. We present an algorithm that produces a nearly optimal schedule for an arbitrary set of classes. The algorithm’s first...

Vending machine assessment methodology. A systematic review.

The nutritional quality of food and beverage products sold in vending machines has been implicated as a contributing factor to the development of an obesogenic food environment. How comprehensive, reliable, and valid are the current assessment tools for vending machines to support or refute these claims? A systematic review was conducted to summarize, compare, and evaluate the current methodolo...

On cascade source coding with a side information "vending machine"

The model of a side information"vending machine"accounts for scenarios in which acquiring side information is costly and thus should be done efficiently. In this paper, the three-node cascade source coding problem is studied under the assumption that a side information vending machine is available either at the intermediate or at the end node. In both cases, a single-letter characterization of ...

Machine vision system for a reverse vending machine